"There is a feminist proverb I learned from my mother: The personal is political. There's a powerful literary stereotype that men write about war and politics and public life, while women confine themselves to family and food and personal life."

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Annia Ciezadlo

#Mother Quotes #Powerful Quotes #War Quotes

“When a youth was giving himself airs in the Theatre and saying, 'I am wise, for I have conversed with many wise men,' Epictetus replied, 'I too have conversed with many rich men, yet I am not rich!â€™.”
“As the best wine doth make the sharpest vinegar, so the deepest love turns to the deadliest hate.”
“I was tired. I hadn't slept eight hours in two, three years. I lived on four, five hours of sleep. You can do it during a campaign because thousands are screaming for you. You're getting adrenaline shots each day. Then the campaign ends, and there are no more shots.”
“It's such a colossal effort not to be haunted by what's lost, but to be enchanted by what was.”

Source : Jandy Nelson (2010). “The Sky Is Everywhere”, p.173, Penguin
“As soon as you take responsibility for your life, you can change the world.”
“Hey! I don't have to put up with this! I'm rich!”

Source : "Fictional character: Princess Vespa". "Spaceballs", www.imdb.com. 1987.
“We may make progress only by freeing ourselves from the rut of the past, but without this rut an orderly society would hardly be possible in the first place.”

Source : "The Future As History". Book by Robert Heilbroner, Chapter IV, Part 6, The Inertia of History, p. 195, 1960.
“Let hunger sharpen your awareness. Abstain liquor and frivolous recreation, which dull the mind and weaken the body.”

Source : Laura Joh Rowland (2007). “The Concubine's Tattoo”, p.229, Macmillan

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